This blog will post detailed news items about GLBT issues. Some of the issues include the "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and gay marriage. Please note that my main website is DOASKDOTELL.COM (link on my Profile).

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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Today, the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC
held its vote on a Discernment policy about inclusiveness, proposed on Sept. 3..

The final vote was 51-3-11, or 51-14 for full inclusiveness. The vote would seem to accept same-sex
marriage ceremonies to be performed in the Church in the future. But it is more broadly worded.

Generally, in my own conversations, practically all younger
adult members (say under the age of 40) favored full inclusion. The church has long held openly gay and
transgender members.

The church was considered very progressive on racial issues
under Dr. Pruden as early as the late 1940s.
The church opened its current sanctuary on Christmas Sunday, 1955.

The church is located about ½ mile north of the White House,
one block south of Foundry Methodist. So
it is one of the closest major churches to the White House. The views of the congregation tend to have some
political influence.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

On an evening where I’m in a tweet storm with Trump over how
to stop North Korea’s threat to test thermonuclear weapons in the air, I found
time for this important story by Daryl Hannah on PrEP’s. Seriously, as a
blogger, I’m a lot more concerned about national security than “discrimination”. But we actually need to have someone like
Kristin Beck back in uniform in the Pentagon helping make the right decisions
on this North Korea mess.

A lot of men don’t like to keep taking them. If you’re well off, in college, 18+ and
well-liked, stick with one person you “trust”.
It’s easier to find monogamy if you can work it to your advantage. The Obamacare repeal could stop coverage for them in many cases.

Even on 18+ nights at discos, you see people leave
together.

AIDS was the nuclear weapon of my own generation

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Picture: Near Camp David, MD. And, Trump, don’t mix up Rocket Man (Kim Jong
Un) with Nano Man (Jack Andraka, as a comics hero, in the world of geeks and
medicine). Don’t mix them up in a speech.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Although Truthout is a bi strident in its calls for money to
become my left-wing voice, which I don’t need and would resent, I noted this
astonishing story by Shane Burley, “White nationalist groups are splitting over
gay inclusion.” While internal ideologies vary (about
biological destiny), there seems to be some connection to upward affiliation
and maybe even eugenics (the idea that one somehow deserves to reproduce). It’s all rather shocking. Spencer gets mentioned.

There is a complicated story about
Fox’s refusal to air an ad from a group called “Kids Pay the Price” about how “religious
freedom laws”, when they allow adoption and foster agencies to follow their
religious beliefs, simply reduce the number of kids who get adopted or find
foster care.?)

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

David Benkoff has a piece in the Daily Caller downplaying
Donald Trump’s supposed backpedaling on gay rights, all the way back to 2016,
here. A lot of denial of identity politics and
placing people into groups claiming systematic oppression. The Log Cabin Republicans tweeted this today.

There is something inevitable about all this: people who are individually competitive have
little use for identity politics and tend to be more conservative.

Thursday, September 07, 2017

A Washington Blade story by Chris Johnson reports pessimism
among LGBT dreamers (as well as asylum seekers) that Congress will restore
DACA, as in this linkposted on Facebook today by DC Center Global.

The article presents the biography of a young man from South
Korea, who says it would not be easy to deal with conscription in the South
Korean military if he had to go back.
Furthermore, it’s a testy time because of extreme tensions with North Korea.

But of course this raises the bigger question that the
entire country of South Korea faces destruction if war breaks out.

There is also a story of a young man from Mexico, and a
report of a belief that DACA rescinding is rooted in white supremacy. I still see it as a legal question, but one
that lends itself to intellectual rationalization that hides the real
problems.

Tuesday, September 05, 2017

HRC sent out an email noting that about 75000 of the “dreamers”
are LGBTQ, linkhere.

This is a difficult thing.
Our western societies don’t hold adult kids responsible for what their
parents did. Nevertheless, the tone of
comments on Trump’s own Facebook page supporting his decision is rather mean.

There is legitimate debate over whether Obama’s DACA order
was legally sustainable forever (given the lawsuit brought by several red
states). Some conservatives say that courts
could have ordered DACA closed in two months.
There is a legitimate argument that Congress must take responsibility
for this issue over the next six months.

Nevertheless, adult kids caught in the situation,, even
though they probably have good reason to believe Congress has to fix it
(Congress’s record with health care is not a good precedent) are put out
now. Employers can reasonably fear that
if they hire them, they could lose work authorization in six months. Same with
schools.

Down the road, if massive work authorization loss happens and
deportations start, we could see increase in Asylum claims, as Jason Dzubow
argued last December (post ), as long as a much larger need for housing support and quasi-sponsorship or
dependency relationships.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC will
pass out a Discernment Card to church members on Sept. 24, 2017.

Here is the text:

“The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC
welcomes people of every race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation,
marital status, age, physical and mental ability, national origin, economic
station and political ideology to full participation in the life of the church.

“’Full participation in the life of our community’ includes
all members, without exception, being fully eligible to participate in the
ordinances, blessings, benefits and responsibilities of church membership –
including communion, baptism, marriage, ordination, parent/child dedications,
and all offices and positions of leadership.

“Any individual member’s ‘full participation in the life of
our community’ does not bind any other member’s conscience on an issue about
which they may differ, but rather requires honest commitment of life together
in the commitment to life together in the community of Christ regardless of
differences.

“We re-commit ourselves to conscious efforts to feel Christ’s
welcome in our congregation, including those with whom we disagree.”

Saturday, September 02, 2017

The East Bay Express has a story about LGBT asylum seekers
obtaining assistance, including housing hosting, in the San Francisco Bay area
(with among the highest housing costs in the nation). The link is here. A number of them are from Russia.

There is also a narrative of a transgender asylum seeker fr
Chechnya who was smuggled across the border from Mexico, in a Washington Post
story by Adam Taylor, here. Getting involved in bringing someone
into the country “illegally” is not something that can be recommended out of
prudence. Maybe this is the “Rich Young
Ruler” problem, having too much to lose.

The Trump administration has added a personal interview
requirement for most green card applications, which could complicate the
process for many asylum seekers, who face waiting periods before eligibility
and may depend on the financial support of others to stay in the country (story).

Friday, September 01, 2017

The owner of a wedding cake bakery in Colorado claims he has
lost 40% of his family income and most of his employees after the Colorado
Civil Rights Commission told him to stop selling cakes or to sell to all
wedding couples as a public accommodation. The owner Jack Phillips stopped
selling cakes. The Washington Times has
the storyhere.

Um, this is the whole “religious freedom” thing. You wonder what this means to him, that
couples who don’t follow the procreation model have such a psychological effect
on “normally married” people. Everyone
shares in potential responsibility for future generations?

But it’s dangerous for government to regulate a small
business this way, too. What if I had to
make my self-published books available in braille to sell them at all? This sort of thing goes both ways.

Vox (Teresa Isabella Burton) has published a long articleabout a gathering of evangelicals (the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ERLC) and its Nashville Statement, which if you open the site, is pretty manipulative to the visitor. They expect visitors to sign it? Evangelicals have gotten "better" on some other things, like condemning the alt-right.

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